To Share or Not to Share? Dilemmas of Collective Action in a "Me-First" Society Sunset at the Volcano I had spoken about the water arrangement before, (in the post The Tragedy of The Western Society on the Commons), in how as soon as we got here

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He Came To Drain the Swamp but instead, He Drained the Aquifers They Tried to Warn Us Some of you have been wondering how exactly we got to this point – exiled within this country with no legal access to potable water. Some part of

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Deepening the Inequalities Inside the Cafe I have stumbled upon a café in walking distance from where we are staying. Water costs $10 a bottle and gas is $20 a gallon, so I can’t afford anything inside. I went inside because there was AC, but the

Effects of a Linear Economic System on a Finite Planet Under the capitalist system, we measure progress through the accumulation of capital. Be it land, money or resources, they all come from the planet, a finite resource. This economic system and mode of production are linear. A linear

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Water Is Life Water Ruined by DAPL Photo Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River#/media/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png Today is the sixth anniversary of when Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord sealing the fate of living in our current world of climate change, catastrophe, and covfefe. We should have seen it

Is Anarchy the Answer? Anarchy is a very misunderstood concept, much of that has to do with the way it is often played out in America, this libertarian style every man for himself and people can do whatever they want type of chaos that is often associated

Earthship Construction with Alternative Soil-Building Methods Today we started making the earthship side of the outhouse. We filled as many bottles as we could with plastic bags and sand from the ground. This actually took the longest and required help from the whole

The Tragedy of Western Society on the Commons 5/25/23 When we had arrived, we learned about Elinor Ostrom’s work from Severin, he even left us with a poster of her design principles. Ostrom was a scholar who did research on common pool resources like fisheries, pastures and more

Turning Waste Into Food 5/24/23 It was another 110-degree day and no magic shower from the water tower came down so we stayed inside. We wanted to go grocery shopping but it was just too hot so we decided to try to see what

The Great Green Waste 5/23/23 Today was really hard, it hit 108 degrees and we all struggled to survive with two weak AC units in the trailer between the eight of us and a limited quantity of ice. We are going to have to get used to